Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-29
ABOUT CHEERFUL NEW
a Fosftfve Reverence for a sm,I,
Ing, Biand-vOiced Man.

Ii cheeriul men were selling for tel
cents apiece, and 1 had a thousan,
dollars to throw away, 1 wouldn't bu,
one OF them. I used to have positiv,
reverence for a smiling, grinning
bland-voiced man. Many a tim,
I've met Smith Or Green or White or
my way down town, and it would ium,
my soul foot high to hear him cal
out:
:" Well my boy, beautiful morning
en-? Isn't everything just lovely? Why
seem to be floating in mid-air! Why
sir, wouldn't trade this earth for al
the heavens ever preached about by
1ne ministers. Have cigar? MOI
Then have drink? No? Dear me
but what can do to brighten YOU ur
and make you feel like an angel on
roller-skates?
And I'd stand off and look at him
and wonder if the land bevond the
skies did really contain a happier soul,
All the old hypocrite! l got to know
in after years that his children were
afraid OF him, his wife trembled as he
entered the door, and that it was his
daily habit to growl out as he left the
door:
"Wood! 1 bought 80 worth last
week. If that's gone We'll 90 without
until Saturday. You are the most ex-
travagant woman in Detroit. 1 believe
you burn it up to spite me. Soap
Didn't l get bar last Saturday? If
you let the children play horse with
the soap you must take the conse-
quences. Go down on the ferry I'd
like to see myself Juggling three or four
young uns and limping wife around
town." "
Your habitually cheerful man is an
old fraud and a liar. He is we'll
dressed, while his children are the
rag-bags of the neighborhood. He
has dollar for cigars when his wife
wears a bonnet six years old. He
passes for a whole-souled fellow with
the public, but is a fault-fnder at
home. You'll see him taking the
cool breezes on the river, while his
family are sweltering in a stuffy house
on some back street.
want to see man grin when
there's anything to grin at, but when
Green gets up in the morning and
declares he hasn't had meal fit to eat
for the last three months, and that he
can't see why his wife is always groan-
ing around and his children always
whining, he has no business to stop
the first man he meets, with a smile
clear back to his ears, and shout out :
Why, old fel, how solemn you do
look! Brace up, man-life is worth
the living ten times over!'
l used to reverence Green. He had
a grip of the hand like a carpenters
vice-he had a voice as bland as June,
he'd make consumptive believe that
nothing more than sore heel was the
matter. / used to lie in ambush for
him just to hear his hearty voice and
see his serene countenance, and I'd go
about my days work wondering what
sort Of a guardian angel he had. I
found out one day when policeman
had to 60 in and stop him from beating
his wife.
When you find man who can grin
over the servant girls jumping out at
an hours notice, with wife fiat in bed
and children having scarlet-fever
look around the eyes, don't you go off
on fishing trip with him. When a
man can soar among angels with bill
collectors ringing his door belfast
weeks grocery bill unpaid-the chill
dren wanting shoes-the rent running
behind, and his wife coughing the
whole night long, he's an internal old
fraud, and ought to be kicked. When
a chap who has frozen the children,
jawed the cook, and blasted his wife,
as sort of morning tonic before leav-
ing the house, meets you about block
from the gate and is troubled because
you haven't got your angel harp on
your shoulder, keep your hand on any
stray half-dollar you happen to have
about. He's mean enough to steal
broth from a boy with a
broken back.-M. Quad, in Detroit
Free Press.